Grip for ropes and the like.



No. 813,457. PATENTED PEB. 27, 1906. G. W. SBEBACH.

GRIP POR ROPBS AND THE LIKE. APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 8. 1905..

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application led September 8,1905. Serial No. 277,630.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SEEBACH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the borough of the BronX, of the city of New York, inthe county and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Grips for Ropes and the Like, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part hereof.

The object of the invention is to provide a grip for ropes and the likewhich shall be constructed so that the tightening of a rope or otherline to which the device may be applied shall be effected with thegreatest possible ease and in which the character of the fastening issuch that there can be no slipping or loosening of the rope in thedevice.

The improved device is designed to be applied to any rope or cable whichmay be required to be tightened from time to time to take up slacksuch,for instance, as the ordinary clothes-line.

The invention will be more fully described hereinafter with reference tothe accompanying drawings, in which aconvenient and practical embodimentof the device is illustrated, and in which Figure lis aview in endelevation. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation, partly in section,showing a rope applied; and Fig. 3 is a plan view.

The device comprises, essentially, two members, one of Which members Ais adapted to receive a strand of rope or the like D, and the othermember B of which is pivoted to the first member A in such a way thatthe lower arm of said member B may be brought against the rope in themember A when the upper arm thereof is drawn out, as by a rope .Thedevice is constructed so that when the two members are united they forma Y- shaped whole, the member A being formed` tion of the member A arecess is provided to permit the lower arm of the member B to penetrateinto the interior of the tubular portion of the member A, so as toengage the rope therein. This lower arm may be provided, as shown, withteeth b to engage the rope. Upon the upper ends of both members eyeholesc3 and b2 may be provided, respectively, through whichthe rope can pass.

One mode of applying the improved grip to a line is illustrated in thedrawings. In accordance with this mode the line is severed at anyconvenient point, and one end thereof, as C, is attached to the upperarm of the member B by passing the same through eyehole b2 and formingtherein a knot, as c. The other end, as D, is passed through the eyeholea3 and down the tubular portion of the member A. The tightening of theline may then be edected, as is obvious, by drawing the line D downthrough the tubular portion of the member A, the particular form andshape of said member A permitting the rope .to be hauled through thegrip smoothly and Without excessive binding and preventing said ropefrom slipping out of the grip while being hauled. The tighter the linebecomes the greater will be the pressure of the lower arm of the memberB u on the rope D, and this pressure will be suflihient toprevent therope D from slipping back through the member A, and thus will preventthe line from becoming slack again.

I claim as my invention- A grip comprising a main member having at itslower end a straight tubular rope-guide that is recessed for a portionof its length and being thence curved and channeled to its opposite endand there provided with an eyeole, spaced pivot-lugs projecting fromsaid main member, and a second clamping member pivoted between the lugsand having at its upper end a rope-attaching eye and at its lower end aripping-jaw which coacts with the channeled portion of the main memberin' grippingthe rope.

This s eciiication signed and witnessed this 6th ay of September, 1905.

GEORGE W. SEEBACH.

LUoIUs E. VARNEY, MINNIE L. B ARMORE.

